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“…Thomas and Peaslee agreed.”
“They succeeded in separating…”
Emmet, T. A. (1880). The principles and practice of gynæcology. Philadelphia: H.C. Lea., p. 567.
“…Emmet’s diagnosis had been the correct one.”
Emmet, T. A. (1880). The principles and practice of gynæcology. Philadelphia: H.C. Lea., pp. 567-68.
“She never rallied…”
Emmet, T. A. (1880). The principles and practice of gynæcology. Philadelphia: H.C. Lea., p. 568.
“…they helped tamp them down.”
See “…it was women who had saved Sims,” above.
“…the importance of admitting cancer patients.”
Harris, S. (1950). Woman's surgeon: The life story of J. Marion Sims. New York: Macmillan, pp. 296-97.
“Sims now had the chance…”
I am summarizing here the thrust of Sims’s thinking over a long span of time. It’s consistent with a broad range of experiments and investigations already completed, and with work he would continue to do well past the chronological end of this book (a great deal of Sims’s work in the 1870s has been skipped). Rather than a single citable source, this is an inference and estimation based on a multiplicity of texts that are both cited and uncited here.
“…a woman’s vagina could be punctured…”
This surgery took place in 1872; by 1874, the practice of puncturing the cul-de-sac of the vagina would be abandoned in favor of the use of glass tubes for the same purpose, as is documented below.
“On Ovariotomy,” J. Marion Sims, New York Medical Journal, December 1872, p. 614.
“…Sims’s decade-old call…”
See “…an unknown constrictor muscle…,” above.